Last week I wrote about Chloe getting punched by her classmate and refuses to go back to school the next day. But yesterday, when PB went to pick chloe up at school, her relief teacher had notified PB that Chloe had taken a stool and hit her classmate back with it – because she didn’t want the other girl to be first. Shocked of course, when we heard about it.. but for the life of me.. i cannot see my brat being so violent nor evil.
As soon as she came back to the store, she hid under her table.. and started crying.. big time… when PB asked her to tell me what was going on. Of course, she wouldn’t say at first.. but after much cajoling and probing.. she said she didn’t pick up the stool and hit her school friend. What happened according to Chloe was .. she wanted to go down the slide first… and she had a stool with her on the bridge of the slide.. to sit like a princess (why i have no idea) .. and then the other girl went down first.. and she tripped on her stool.. while trying to go down the slide.. and the stool fell and hit the other kid. I know that Chloe can be quite bossy at times.. but never had i seen her raise a hand on anyone.. especially another kid. I had asked Kate if Chloe had ever hit her .. and Kate said no.. but Chloe would try and scratch her hands.. if she was mad.
We continued reminding Chloe about what bullies are .. and how no one wants to be friends with bullies and how when the other kid punched her last week and how upset we were. We re-enforced our believes and tried to see if there was a different story. And this morning .. i asked her again, if she ever scratched Kate – in which she replied yes. I asked her if she did pick up the stool to hit her friend in school, she said ” you already asked me 100 times yesterday, and I said “no” .. it was an accident!”
But her relief teacher did distinctly tell PB that chloe picked up the stool to hit her friend. So did my daughter grew horns overnite.. that I don’t know of. As parents, we of course, want to think that our kids are angels. It is very dangerous… if as a parent you do not want to hear both side of the story.. and that your kid does not know the consequences of her actions. So come Monday, we explained to Chloe that we will ask her teacher to speak to her classmate without us with Chloe .. about what happened. Plus we are gonna leave our phone # for the other parent to contact us.. if the teacher’s finding is that Chloe did actually pick up the stool to hit the other girl. Because if Chloe did that, we have to let the other parent know that we are on top of things – and this is never gonna happen again. On the other hand, if it was a misunderstanding.. i want to set the record right too.
